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Pentassarion Æ
28 mm, 11,42 g

Sptimius Severus, with Julia Domna. AD 193-211. Moesia, Marcianopolis.
Flavius Ulpianus, legatus consularis. Struck AD 210-211. Æ Pentassarion .
AV K Λ CEΠ CEYHΡOC IOYΛIA ΔOMNA CEB; Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Septimius Severus and draped bust of Julia Domna facing one another / ΥΦΛ ΟΥΛΠΙΑΝΟΥ ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ; Tyche standing left, holding rudder and cornucopia; Є (mark of value) to left. H&J, Marcianopolis 6.15.35.4; AMNG I 601; Varbanov 868; Moushmov 411.


Next - confronted busts

 

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Complete the family picture..


Next up: brothers on one coin before the Severan dynasty

 

my upload speed doesn't allow me to play this...but.... Gaius & Lucius Caesar, adopted sons of Augustus, biological sons of Marc Agrippa

up next:" two more bros on coins"

 

Aureus of Vespasian with brothers Titus and Domitian on reverse.

next.... coin of Titus...

 

next: Titus denarius

 

My latest Titus (listed as a Vespasian. But we know better)

Next up: Venus sharing her big Ole bootie

 

Julia Domna AR Denarius. Rome, AD 193-196.
IVLIA DOMNA AVG, bust of Julia Domna, hair waved and coiled at back, draped, right / VENERI VICTR, Venus, with drapery falling below hips, standing with back turned, head right, holding apple in extended right hand and palm sloped to the left in left hand, resting left elbow on colum
RIC IV Septimius Severus 536 (denarius)

2.16 g, 17 mm

Next - Domna denarius

 

This one was on my top 10 list last year.


Julia Domna, AD 193-217.
Roman AR denarius, 2.94 g, 19 mm, 12 h.
Uncertain eastern mint, AD 193-196.
Obv: IVLIA DOMNA AVG, bare-headed and draped bust of Julia Domna, right.
Rev: LIBERAL AVG, Liberalitas, draped, standing left, holding tessera in right hand and cornucopiae in left.
Refs: RIC 627; BMCRE 418-419; Cohen/RSC 103; RCV 6591; CRE 366.

Next: Liberalitas.

 

Philip I

A.D. 244-249. AR antoninianus Rome, A.D. 245. IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Philip I right / LIBERALITAS AVG II, Liberalitas standing facing, head left, holding abacus and cornucopiae. RIC 38b; RSC 87.

Next up: partially silvered

 

Domitian fourree denarius, with layers of silver peeling off making him look like a zombie!
Next, a masterfully done imitative coin.

 

However the Celts did it, they masterfully took another Greek masterful piece of art:


and turned it into this:


Next up: another coin design inspired by another coin type

 

On the left is the standard Raja Raja Chola stater (985-1014 AD), while the obverse is the same with a standing king with a lamp to his left, the reverse is different! with the Chola coin, it reads Raja Raja in Negeri script under his arm, however, in the Pandya coin, there is a fish under the king's arm and the royal scepter to its right! This coin also weighs only 2 grams, while the Chola weighs 4 grams. And the Pandya coin was minted around 1268-1308 AD under Maravarman Kulasekara Pandyan I.

Next, an iconic coin.

 

Sestertius of Caligula with reverse of his three sisters...

next... another coin of Caligula...

 

next: fourree

 

It's common for ancient fouree forgeries to have the reverse of one ruler combined with the obverse of another. This fouree of Orbiana, for example, is a hybrid between an obverse of Orbiana and a reverse of her mother-in-law:



Genuine Orbiana:



Genuine Julia Mamaea:



This may represent merely the effect of only having certain dies on hand. Alternatively, it may have been deliberate on the part of the forgers because it allowed them to identify their handiwork and avoid taking it as the genuine article if encountered in circulation.

NEXT: Ornate throne.

 

next: Seleukos I

 

Hi All,

Here's a drachm for your thoughts. Lorber SC-0122 var: Σ under throne.



NEXT: A coin of Seleukos II.

- Broucheion

 

Seleukid Kingdom. Magnesia on the Maeander . Seleukos II Kallinikos 246-226 BC. Bronze Æ 17 mm., 4,02 g.
Obv: Head of Artemis right, bow and quiver behind.
Rev: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣEΛEYKOY.
Apollo standing left, testing arrow and resting bow on ground; all within maeander pattern. Controls: Monogram in field to outer right, two monograms in field to outer left.
SC 670.

Next - Artemis

 

Moesia, Nikopolis ad Istrum. Diadumenian. AD 217-218.
Obv: M OPEL DIADOYMENIANOC, bare-headed, draped, cuirassed bust right.
Rev: VP CTA LONGIOV NIKOPOLITWN PROC I, Artemis walking right, holding bow, reaching for an arrow from the quiver at her shoulder, hound running right before her.
Magistrate Statius Longinus.

Next: Magistrate

 

Creepy little kid Telesphoros from the Conventus of Pergamum.

Issued under Antoninus Pius,
Magistrate- I. Pol(l)ion (strategos for the second time, asiarch and neokoros)
147-161 AD
Obverse- ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩN. bust of Athena.
Reverse- ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ Ι ΠΩΛΛΙΩ ΤΟ Β. Telesphorus standing, facing.
2.12g
Next- a coin from Pergamum.